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This is EHZHangout. It's a small level pack for hangout that contained 3 maps: Emerald Hill
(the prototype of Varway Valley from Starshy's Stages), Cosomania (also a prototype) and Greenflower 
City (the original version of that hangout map). Those were released in 2019 and were used in hangout
servers... until the release of 2.2. The maps never got a 2.2 release. Until 2022!
I wanted to port those 2 maps since a while, and on June 6th 2022, I've got permission for porting 
Emerald Hill and Cosomania, and I decided to do so!
This port also improves the two maps. Greenflower City was removed, due to already being released
under the name "Oldflower City". It's not on the MB, you have to go around hangout servers
to find it.
In v16, the 2 maps were changed a bit less, but in the upcoming-at-the-time v17, they were even 
farther changed (especially Emerald Hill)! Originally called v16.2, it had to be changed to v17 due 
to the amount of changes introduced.
I abandoned it in mid-2023, but months after its abandonment, I felt like touching it up a bit and
releasing it to the public! And so I did... in March 2024.
In August, I started development on v18, which would have been a two-part update: the first one (v17.2)
finishes Emerald Hill, while the actual v18 brings you a complete Cosomania! After abandoning it and
returning to it, here we are! Version 17 point 2 (released in July 2025), and now, Version 18 (Jan 2026)!
This is the last major version of EHZHangout. Future updates will focus on bug fixes, possible
improvements and, if I'm still around in the community and modding, a port to 2.3.
After over 3 years (since the return of the pack), here we are. The finish line.
Thank you for playing this pack all along the time! And thank you, Starshy for making this!
   
CREDITS:
- Starshy, for making Emerald Hill and Cosomania. In this update, I borrowed the Cosomania wall texture
from Starshy Levels with permission. I also took inspiration from a few stuff from Starshy Stages, 
like the new water areas, and the usage of THZLIT1 (I didn't know how to even put it in, so I looked 
at the level pack to see how)
- CrystallineGazer, for the idea of the level pack
- klasky (me) for porting/editing Emerald Hill and Cosomania and some other custom graphics
- indigoPulse for Emerald Hill's wood section, which is originally used in Rainbow Pebble Beach
- SEGA/Sonic Team for the EHZ textures and tree sprite, also the EHZ and EHZ house music (2P Emerald Hill) 
and O_COSMA (Encore Mode Save Select), and also for Eggman and Sonic in The Cutedy Show 2 Episode 1
- Jupirnier, for Welia Does Some Stuff Episode 1
- AJMental, for Sick Images by AJ
- Yaro, for the "grizzly bear" animation in Cosomania
- DeltaSanic, for most of the Hidden Palace textures + the Aquatic Ruin race track's grass textures
- Bluelight, for making Greenflower City (the version in the original EHZHangout is now Oldflower City), 
and also the animation after Yaro's in Cosomania
- Glaber, for SRB2: The Past. He's credited here, because during animating the flowers, I looked at the
SRB1 Metal Sonic SOC, which helped me. One HPZ texture is also taken from this mod (TUBEV), which was
in a veery old SRB2 development map
- GalaxyTrail Games, for 2 of Cosomania's music files (O_COSOM is Dragon Valley, O_STARHS is Hub 1 - 
- Secret Tree House from Freedom Planet 1)
- Tee Lopes for composing the versions of the 2 music files Emerald Hill uses (they're from Sonic 2 HD)
- Addryu for the Hidden Palace remix ("Mega CD Remix")
- Greenmoon for making the 3rd and last Cosomania short
- enes2gamer for helping me with the Cosomania treadmill
- AirFox for beta testing the level pack and giving me suggestions
- GomaTheMascar for helping me scroll the other type of waterfalls in Hidden Palace (Emerald Hill)
- Various house textures (the washing machine, the oven, the microwave, the hob and the fridge) were
taken from store pages and are actually real commercial products, such as Samsung, Bosch, Electrolux etc.
       - Microwave: Bosch Serie 2 25L Built-in 800W Microwave Oven BEL653MB3A 
       - Oven: Electrolux SurroundCook 600 EOF3H40BX
	   - Washing Machine: Samsung WW70TA026AT
	   - Hob: Evoque Series Just Black 4BR (Haute)
	   - Fridge: Tulup decoration fridge cover or something
	   - Socket: Earthed Socket (Schuko) (Nilson)
	   - Clothes Dryer: Haier 10kg 600 Series Heat Pump Dryer
	   - Air Conditioner: Century 1.5hp Inverter Split Unit Air Conditioner CAC-12I
	   - Dumbbells: Cosco Hexa Dumbbell (5 kg)
	   - Light Switch: PLW01 Soft Start Dimmable Wall Switch
- Some other house textures have been taken from freepik.com (I USED FREE, NON-AI GENERATED ASSETS!!!)
       - TV Remote by macrovector (Black and silver tv remote controllers of different models realistic set 
	   isolated vector illustration)
	   - Cosomania PC chair seat by kjpargeter (Dark quilted texture)
	   - Broom by freepik (Brown texture background)
	   - Trash Can texture by freepik (Flat lay of metal surface with ridges)
- The pictures in Cosomania, aside from the one I drew with Starshy's characters, use the following
level packs/maps:
       - Starshy Stages
	   - Bluelight's Hangout Maps
	   - Egg Country (by Spectra; cancelled)
	   - Forest House (by me)
	   - Supraluminal Ship (by me)
	   - Idiotic Castle (by me)
- Some textures have been borrowed from Half-Life

Feel free to add this in your server, if you want! Feel free to edit it if you want (no need to
ask for permission)! Incase I'm gone, you can freely maintain it and do whatever you want with it, 
and you don't need to ask for permission either. All I ask is, if you do any of those, give credit to me 
and Starshy!

- klasky
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